T9_2_5_1

2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 9_2_5.1
Adults with chronic joint symptoms who have ever seen a doctor or other health professional for joint symptoms,^a United States, 2009
Population group		Percent	SE
Total		70.5	0.8
Age	18-44	64.5	1.4
	45-64	74.0	1.0
	65 and over	83.2	1.0
Gender	Female	74.6	1.0
Gender	Male	66.0	1.3
Race	AI/AN only	57.5	7.2
	Asian only	62.4	4.6
	NHOPI only	DSU	DSU
	Black only	75.1	1.9
	White only	70.2	0.9
	Multiple races	70.8	5.3
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	65.9	2.0
	Non-Hispanic, all races	71.3	0.9
	Non-Hispanic, Black	75.2	2.0
	Non-Hispanic, White	71.0	1.0
Health insurance,^b ages 18-64	All persons under 65 years	72.3	1.1
	Private	69.4	1.2
	Public	82.4	1.8
	Uninsured	52.5	2.1
Health insurance, age 65 and over	All persons 65 years and over	83.2	1.0
	Medicare and private	83.8	1.2
	Medicare and public	87.1	2.2
	Medicare only	80.3	2.0
Family income^c	Negative/poor	72.2	1.9
	Near poor/low	68.1	1.8
	Middle	70.4	1.5
	High	72.0	1.5
Education, age 25 and over	Less than high school	67.1	2.3
	High school graduate	72.3	1.4
	At least some college	72.5	1.0
Location of residence^d	Metropolitan	71.0	0.9
	Large central metro	68.2	1.7
	Large fringe metro	73.4	1.7
	Medium metro	71.0	1.7
	Small metro	72.3	2.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	69.8	2.4
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	66.4	3.0
Activity limitations^d	Basic activities	86.4	1.2
	Complex activities	86.9	1.2
	Neither basic nor complex activities	63.0	1.0

^a. Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. Age data and health insurance data for age 65 and over are unadjusted.

^b. A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private" category only.

^c. Negative/poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line for a given household size and composition; near poor/low, the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

^d. For more information, see the National Health Interview Survey entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T9_2_5_1: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/9_musculoskeletal/T9_2_5_1.html